RNC paying for McCain fundraising email -- we should get the same
Posted March 23rd, 2008 by ProspectorSam
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I just got this in email.
For the moment, ignore the rhetoric (no surprises in it). Note the last part:"Paid for by the Republican National Committee." Now McCain, as we all here know so well, is not the party nominee. He's only one of the candidates in the race at this time. Thus, I propose that Ron Paul, as the other Republican also in the race, request the same consideration from the RNC to ask for contributions to *his* campaign efforts, and access to the same email list to send out a similar fundraising request.
Would that be a bad idea for some reason (negative PR perhaps)? A good idea? Neither/unknown? What say ye, DP readers?
Sign a Pledge of Support for John McCain
From: John McCain (johnmccain@gop.com)
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Sent: Fri 3/21/08 12:06 AM
To: me@hotmail.com
My Friends,
I am not running for president to be somebody, but to serve our country with honor. I seek the office of the President of the United States because I am as confident today as I was when I first entered public life as a foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution that the principles of the Republican Party - our trust in the good sense and resourcefulness of free people - are always in America's best interests.
I am convinced that every challenge I have confronted during my years of serving our country and its ideals, has made me better able to lead and ready to serve as president from day one.
I realize this is going to be an extremely tough, hard-fought campaign, but I've faced and overcome great challenges before . That is why I am reaching out to you today to ask you to sign my 2008 Presidential Pledge of Support and make a campaign contribution of $50, $100, $500 or even the maximum allowable amount of $2,300 by following this link today.
As we have seen in recent years, elections are often fought within the margins of small differences. This one clearly will not be. The differences between our campaign and the Democrats could not be greater. And I intend to fight as hard as I can to ensure that our principles prevail.
Today I hope you will join me in this fight by following this link to sign the Pledge of Support and make a campaign contribution of any amount you can afford - up to the legal limit of $2,300.
I need to be able to reach out to all Americans, and continue to build our national grassroots campaign. It is no secret that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have raised enormous, historic sums of money in their battle for the nomination. National liberal Democratic groups like MoveOn.org, the Democratic National Committee, and others are plotting to spend and do whatever it takes to bring my campaign down.
With your support, I will have the resources to take my campaign to America's voters, present my vision for America and my accomplishments and outline how I will provide the leadership to solve our nation's most serious problems and move our country toward a safe and prosperous future for all.
Please, sign my Ple dge of Support today and make a generous contribution to help our campaign take my message to the American people.
As I pursue the Office of the President of The United States, I make you this promise: I will always put America - her strength, her ideals, her future - before every other consideration.
I hope you will respond soon.
Thank you,
John McCain
P.S. If you believe as I do that the differences between me and Senators Clinton and Obama are very real and very important, and that the stakes are indeed great, then I urge you to join me today. Because what we do to set the course and lay the foundation of this campaign beginning right now, will mean the difference between victory and defeat in November. Please, sign our Pledge of Support and make your contribution of $50, $100, $500, $1,000 or $2,300 today. Thank you.
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IMO we should request the same consideration
by the Republican National Committee. Is this something that should be run by the Ron Paul campaign staff? Or should we just go for it?
Is this because McCain has applied for
the matching funds? I know Ron Paul will not apply for matching funds, and that McCrum is trying to back out of the matching funds now.
Try This:
If you receive a Letter from the McInsane Campaign, take the time to send it back. Write: Ron Paul Supporter, Please Return to Sender!!!
Ron Paul President 2008
True Patriot of the Republic
A Ron Paul Slim Jim just fits in "postage paid by addressee"
envelopes! Republican fundraising efforts get one Slim Jim from me! That's IT!! I also put slim jims in the numerous credit card offer envelopes, and stamp Ron Paul for President of the outside. Makes me smile every time I send one.
Good Idea
This is a good idea. And, since it probably comes with a self addressed, stamped envelope we could load it up with some of the junk mail that we each receive everyday, as our way of recycling and send back a heavy load. They would then be forced to pay the post office the additional cost. If enough of us did this it might deplete the GOP's treasury to the point that they may need us more than we need them. They would certainly think twice about requesting donations for the Mc Goofball.
Not About Donating to RNC
From my reading of it, the purpose of the OP is not to urge us to donate to the RNC, as some commenters below alluded to...but rather that, since the RNC has paid for this mailing on behalf of McCain -- who is not yet officially the Republican Nominee -- the RNC should, therefore, fund an equal amount for a mailing of materials on behalf of their *other*, still-in-the-running, Republican candidate: namely, Ron Paul.
And I would heartily agree! (Is the RNC breaking their own rules by funding mailers for one of their candidates, and not the other?)
Good Idea
Good Idea
I plan on sending the
I plan on sending the Republican National Committee an invoice. It will state that they owe me $4,300. I know they owe me more, but I'm willing to set our differences aside and settle on a lower amount for the good of the country.
It was the leadership of this committee who decided to fabricate evidence and illegally invade another country costing me and my children thousands.
No
The nominee, McCain gets the money, not our campaign..You earn the nomination and the funds in the primaries and we have won none
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COME ON!!!!!
Have our concerns fallen on very much DEAF EARS???
GET RID OF THIS LOOSER.
TROLLING, DIS-INFORMATION, ALL AROUND NOT HELPFULL.
get a new hobby onevoiceofreason
he's not the nominee until the convention. Get a new hobby other than stirring up trouble with disinformation and devisive remarks. I flagged you for being a jerk/moron.
I think
this is his full time job and getting paid for it. He seemed to stay on this site 24/7.
"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." Confucius
No a single
red penny from me to support these frauds.
"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." Confucius
Excellent Posting - You Have My Support
You did an excellent job in bringing this to everyone attention. Now we need to keep commenting and bumping this, and you need to continue to reply to the many comments that you will receive. Again, Hat's Off for a job well done.
Steve
Since he is so educated on
Since he is so educated on the economy, I am sending monopoly money. I assume he won't know the difference. And I thought he was over the limit on money he can spend due to the FEC regulations?
Send him some Monopoly money AND
a Ron Paul Slim Jim!